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The medium sized sailor with kettlo odge, above, is of navy reglisse, with low crown of stitched taffots to match, and tied on with a band and bow of the silk.

The youthful bonnor type illustrated_below is of black -baku, with the brim-edge-of

white Venise laco.

Cookery Hints

BUT

Helpful Hints

TF you have not a special threuder

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for your sewing machine, put a apot of white paint on the fool juni behind the needle and the eye will show up quite clearly and be enay to thread.

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Mustard and cress can be grown sponge hung in the kitchen window. It should be kept damp and the window left open-when-pos- sible.

It can be gathered every day and fresh seed sown.

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When making sandwiches, mix a little mustard and salt with the butter or margarine before spreading on the bread. The flavouring is pleasing and is evenly distributed.

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To remove distemper and while- wash splashes, rub with a rug soaked in hot vinegar. It will remove all traces if it is done quickly. This is a hint worth remembering when do- ing redecorating later on.

Put knot in the Bex of your vacuum cleaner just where it is at- tached to the handle. This will save the flex wearing at a point where there is great strain on it.

Bacon will not shrink in frying if It is first dipped in flour.

If milk has boiled over on the stove, wipe up øk ance with a cloth dipped in soap suds. If this is done no marks will be left that will be difficult to get off Inter.

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Rub olive oil over stainless steel -articles-decasionallyThen-polteta. with a dry chamois, This wil keep them bright and striving.

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Twirl the blue bag in the water in which glasses are washed and they

NUTTER }s best softened by Billing will sparkle when dried and polished.

busin with boiling water,! emptying it, and turning it upside! down over the butter-dish.

A little salt rubbed over a hot try ing pan before frying pancakes will prevent the mixture mering to the pan.

Clothes which have become dis- coloured and yellow from keeping will be made quite white again if soaked overnight in warm water to which a dessertspoonful of cream of turtar Hus been aclded.

"When preparing apples for cook- A teaspoonful of cream of tartar, ing, pour bailing water over them too, udded to each gallon of water and allow them to remain for a few in which faded curtains ore boiled minutes as the peel cally comes off, will make them pure white: Boil

until all the colour has gone.

and with much less waste.

Finely grated lemon rind will) enrich simple puddings and cakes In To cover up scratches un polished which the ice of the fruit is not wood, upply a little jodine with a

day.j required. In fact, the latter should small brush. Leave it for not be added te cake mixtures as it and then polish with furniture cream. is liable to make them heavy.

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May

31, 1940.

A

VARIETY

A Shampoo in

This little girl has hor fluffy locks shampoood with a minimum of offort in the bathtub. Hor hair. is

brushed to remove the dust, dampened, then a foamy oil shampoo worked through the strands. Tho_lather_is rinsed away with a hand spray held so the water runs backward and will not get into her. ayos. Sometimes sho has a bath at the same time--lotting the soapy water run out then rinsing both hair and body with a showering

of warm water from the spray.

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Brown & Savoury

NOW for kidney. It's not so ex-

pensive on some folk think, for

it's all good, nourishing neat. A little of it goes a long way and makes

any so, slew, pudding or pie to

willen It is added-rich-brown-und. savoury.

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Ox kidney-you can buy it whole-

-If Flavoured

with Kidney

or by the half pound-is used for make an excellent meal.

stewing and for those appetislag steals and kidney puddings.

Ingredients; 4 sheep's kidneys, 2 firm tomatoes, b. potatoes, mar Maybe you've had to complain gorine.

Skin and split the kidneys, and that the kidney is as rare as six- a Christinas Puckling, but

gril them slowly with the tomatoes, pences in a beware of going to the other ex- The latter can be put on at "half

the treme, or you'll.

Moit

Says Mrs.

flavour, time" as they will cook more quickly Bardell

Chop the kidney up smull so that it Peel, then chip the potatoes, dry

is well distributed.

Kidneys need Jitte

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them well and fry in boiling inore alt until golden brown.

thats most meats to offset their rather

Drain well, so that they arrive on important the table crisp and brown. taste. And, most fat they need slow cooling if you want them to be succulent and savoury. Herb Flavour Coolted too quickly, the fibres harden und the meat becomes tasteless and rubbery.

with

the Tub

This nourishing

soup made with

kidney is extra

good if accom-

panied by fluffy

dumplings.

Here's a nourishing soup made with kidney and served with dumplings to make a meal of it.

Ingredients: 1 oz kidney, 1 carrot, turnip, i onion, 3 small potatoes, Another savoury stew, thavoured juz, flour, los, dripping, 3 pts, water, 1 teasp. vinegar, 14 teasp, ketchup.

shallot and some sweet herbs, salt and pepper. Sheep's kidneys are best for grill- Ingredients: 3 or 4 sheep's kidneys. ing or frying. If they're frozen when 1oz. margarine, 1 teasp. four, pt.

Wash and ent up the kidney, prepare and slice the vegetables. Melt you buy them, thaw them out slowly stock, I chopped shallot, lens, the dripping in the saucepan and fry the outon.

the

to

A hot

water and vegetables, and simmer for three hours. Rub all through a sieve, re-heat and add seasoning and flavourings. Serve with dumplings cooked separately in a saucepan of boiling water. Some of the pieces of kidney may be kept back before sieving and served as a garnish.

In a worm place before cooking (suve sweet herbs, teasp. salt, and a Dip. the pleces of kidney in the flourt and fry lightly. Then add the

then cook shake from the pepper pot. juice for gravy),

Skin and cut the kidneys lolo slowly.

And, new homemakers, if you've slices. Roll In seasoning made 1.m not cooked a kidney before, take the the herbs, chopped slukiot, salt and outside sidin off first. If you make a

margarine, then remove tiny slit with the point of a knife per, Fry light brown in the just where the fatty plece is, you'll

plate. And the skin slips off quite easily. Add the flour to the margarite and Cut out the mall bit of fat. It witen nicely browned add the stock will come in handy to grease the pun and bring to the boil. Put in the with if you're frying the Iddneys, or kidneys and simmer slowly for 20 It can be melted down with other minutes. Serve with bolled carrots fats.

und potatoes,

Succulent Stew

Stewed ox kidney is very some. Hero is the recipe:---

favour-

Ingredients: 1 ox kidney, 1 onion,

1 pt. stock, loz. dour, 1 teasp. sugar,

1

teasp. mixed mustard, seasoning, loz. margarine.

Wash. Ildncy well in cold salled

ATW water. Cut away the fat and centre, and slice thinly. Heat the sugar in

a pan until brown, then add the mar-

garine and melt.

Fry the kidney and onion in this, stir in the flour and add.stock. Cook gently for three hours, then add sea- soning and mustard.

Devilled Kidneys

A favourite way to serve sheep's. kidneys is to devil them and to serve them on toast for supper,

Make the devil paste first, with 2 teasp, made musfard, 2oz. margarine, 1 tensp. chutney, black pepper and; salt. Work all the ingredients into

the margarine with a knife.

Skin the kidneys, cut them open, spread with the devil paste and grill over a clear fire. Serve on rounds of hot buttered toast apread with chutney..

Grilled with Tomatoes

Grilled kidneys" dished "up" with; grilled tomatoes and chipped potatoes

Palo pink combining bands of plain and dat embroidered Swiss" organdic

makes this #ittle frock in the 2 to 6 rango, with boading across the neck... line drawn with blue ribbon...

Making The Most Of Your Linen Store

even more

IS year some of us and the new them, then the worst of the plilow ples of bed linen in our cup-slips may be darned or even patch boards rather smaller than usual, ed, and used as a permanent over-

becomes and it

than cover for the ticking, the ends being usually necessary to make use of sown up. every bit of half-worn linen, and to get as much extra wear out of it as is possible.

a thing or two. They always tumed Blankets in Layers

their sheets sides to middle" when

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trying 'teens that makes a girl complaints comes from the trades- grow up good-looking, charming and self-confident.

Mothers-sometimes became dis- couraged because their efforts do not in show

results. But immediate keeping a baby immaculately clean. in carefully supervising her diet and elimination and by correcting or forestalling small defects that might cause trouble later on, you are build- ing the finest most-lasting-kind_of beauty..

And there is one thing that will show an Immediate and gratifying effect on the child's appearance. the nicest is Hair Lovely hair

huye

It can thing a. tle girl can offset a plain face, freckles, clumsy hands with

nails stubby

It can awkward carriage. pride in her looks which will en- massage # courage brushing and soon as she is able to do this her- self.

Cican Hair Must Be

men who have to cut off, the little cardboard coupons with scissors. "If they were only perforated, like stamps...

Rationing and ration cards are among the Briton's standard jokes. "Don't think much of this ration stuff" says Mrs. Bucket to Mrs. Broom, "I put the blt marked 'sugar in my tea, and it weren't sweet at all?

We British-people.cat much. Jess than we did. Think of the gar- gantuan meals of Dickens's day! I remember the usual dinner-at, the. country house where I spent much of my youth. Soup at one end of the table; fish at the other; a Joint useet and a and two entrees; savoury, and dessert, Cruelly long to the child who watched the love- 10

and arouse

Keep her hair immaculately clean. This is easy in baby days, but when her hair is longer, tangled and grimy from play, shampooing is a real job. if you find shampooing your child's hair over a wash basin unsatisfac- lory, try this new technique which is less harrowing for both you and the Use the bathtub. A youngster. spray with a good long hose,

the folded

to Washcloth

protect child's eyes from suds, liquid oll shampoo which produces n fcumy ather in a hurry, yet rinses out casily even in the hardest water, u bath towel, a couple of hand towels

and you're all set.

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Brush her hair thoroughly first to loosen dirt, lint and particles of dead cutlele and to stimulate the clrculation. Be sure to select a good shampoo.

A combination oll and cleansing preparation like the foamy oll shampoo or a soapless olive oil shampoo treatment is good. Both produce a thick, rich lather.

ly summer evening fading bebind the window! The head of that household belonged to the genera- tion that had dined at six and had tea carried in before bedtime. Ma- dern pressure had delayed dinner till eight. But ten and buttered toast still appeared two hours af- ter!

new.

Nutrition IR ຕ selence People who know very little of what the words mean talk of ca- tories and vitamins and protective foods. I know a couple who eat nothing cooked at all,

Their re freshment for a night journey was of cabbage leaves and slices of raw turnip. Such food faddists should, so someone told them, "be left to die of it". But we are all learning that

ind,

cheese, fruit, wholemeal bread are better body fucl

than the old "two sorts of meat" and pastry.

and

Dwellers in the country and in country towns are, I think, better off in a food sense than the Big Town people. They and their "re- tall dealers are on friendly, neigh- bourly terms, us they could never be with Mr. Barrod or the Chair- mun of the Military and Naval Stores. A voice on the telephone. that "mackerel is nice. whispers to-day". Mrs. Flathome, In Small- town, could have changed her superfluous butter for eggs, or or for some of the marmalade. salmon that Vicar's niece's hus- band caught, during leave, on the "Now comes in the sweet of the year", for the children. - The Stop-

How to Shampoo For the shampoo, have the child Thin blankets may also be turned sit in the tub, halding her head back aldes to middle, but for this purpose and covering her eyes with the folded real silk buttonhole twist is better, washcloth. Using the spray, wet the wool or collon, being very hate with warm water, holding the Here perhaps our grandmothers, than who regarded thrift as n virtue, even strong and having elastic qualities spray against the head so that the water flows back through the hair. when not a necessity, can teach us

Spey. Then pour a little shampoo directly on top of her head. Work up a-rich, As the selvedges of blankets are foamy latter, massaging

scalp they were getting thin in the centre not as strong on linen ones, over-gently with the fingertips and work-Me-and-Buy-One Ice cream mer

They tore them down the middle, sewing is not always suficiently ing the suds through the entire pinned the selvedges together, and strong. It is better to lay the binnket length of hair. Rinse in the same oversewed them from one end to edge to edge, to take up a quarter the middle, and then from the other of an inch or so of selvedge of one manner you originally wet the hair. end to the middle, so that the work side, then turning the needle and tak. Repeat the sudsing and rinse again Squeeze the surplus water out of not "drawn" unevenly. Then ng up aimilar pieces of the other the sldes were neatened by narrowide.

the child's hair. Wipe her face and hems.

Several blankets can be laid on wrap one of the hand towels around Thin Pillow-Slipa

top of each other, with a plece of her head turban fashion while you pretty fabric covering them, the dry her off with the bath towel, If the sheets are badly worn, edges tucked under, and the whole may be necessary to cut the worn quilted together by machine. strips off the sides after the centre has.been over-sewn, before hemuning- them, thus turning the double sheet into single size.

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This makes quite a useful: bed-| cover, and it can be as attractive as you please according to the cover) you choose, which can be bound with)

If you have pillow-slips which are a colour, or decorated with a self- so thin- that the Ucking which holds Trill

ilie fenthers becomes visible-through

with tepld water.

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Baller things are at hand too Already tender green prparagus lids appeared on some tables. Whit Sunday is marked on the garden-. ers calendar as the day when green gooseberries should be fit for enting. year, and the year has been a hard one. But the Rogations Ascension week, when the Chureti blesses fields and gardons, have brought a warm rath aid sunshine, 10 ent with green gooseberry tart: The sugar ration is belig saved up

Whitsuntide is

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